An early history of compassion : emotion and imagination in Hellenistic Judaism /
"In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of late antiquity. Pity - sometimes also understood as compassion - is, in the literature of these communities, a spontaneous and embodied feeling, a virtue to extend to...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : 2017 New York : [2017] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Between Power and Vulnerability
- Found in Translation
- Within the Fabric of Society
- Bonds in Flux
- In Dialogue with the Empire
- Conclusion : A Discourse of the Other
- note: 1 Between Power and Vulnerability
- 1.1. Feeling for Others' Pain in the Greek Language
- 1.2. Josephus: Pity and Sympathy as Privilege
- 1.3. Testament of Zebulun: Compassion as Vulnerability
- 1.4. Philo's Pity: Between Emotion and Virtue
- 1.5. When Vulnerability and Empowerment Intertwine
- 2. Found in Translation
- 1.1. Compassion in Biblical Hebrew?
- 2.2. Greek Scriptures: A Linguistic Space for Emotions
- 2.3. Pity: Twists and Turns
- 2.4. Conclusion: An "Aura of Antiquity"
- 3. Within the Fabric of Society
- 3.1. Sirach: Pity as Negotiation of Status
- 3.2. Two Foundation Myths of Pity
- 3.3. Receiving Pity: An Experience of Humiliation and Emasculation
- 3.4. Feeling Pity: A Feminine and Feminizing Attitude
- 3.5. Reclaiming Masculinity by Withholding Sympathy
- 3.6. Conclusion: What Pity Does and Costs
- 4. Bonds in Flux
- 4.1. Tobit: The Invention of a Diaspora Community
- 4.2. Pity as Inclusion in a Common Humanity
- 4.3. Pity as a Dual Marker of Identity
- 4.4. Gentle Emotion That Inspires Action
- 4.5. Conclusion: Why Is the Love Command Reshaped into Compassion?
- 5. In Dialogue with the Empire
- 5.1. Pity in Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Narrative Literature
- 5.2. Imagining the Care for All Others in Philosophical Literature
- 5.3. Intersections: The Other's Suffering in an Ethic Focused on the Self
- 5.4. Echoes in Imperial Propaganda
- 5.5. Minority Culture's Engagement with a Dominant Ideology.